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Wednesday, 06 September 2023 11:26

The shipwreck in Pylos is a crime caused by the Greek Coast Guard while trying to tow the ship full of refugees outside of Greek waters.

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Κεερφα-Keerfa-Κίνηση Ενωμένοι Ενάντια στο Ρατσισμό και τη Φασιστική Απειλή
The drowning of 650 refugees is a mass murder caused by the New Democracy government and by it’s implementation of the closed borders policies of  Fortress Europe
Let's fight for open borders, for the fence to come down, and for asylum for all refugees
Thousands demonstrated yesterday in Athens and other cities taking to the streets in outrage over the horrific crime committed near Pylos. The shipwreck of 750 refugees including over 100 children. Anger flares as survivors reveal the circumstances that led to the sinking.
  We have 78 bodies of refugees in the mortuary of Schistos and 104 survivors have been arrested and referred to Malakasa for identification.
But above all, we have hundreds of missing people, bringing the number of drowning deaths to 650.
This is the biggest racist crime of the closed borders policy of Fortress Europe, since the shipwrecks in Lampedusa in 2013. The Coast Guard with the political direction of deterrence and pushbacks imposed by the New Democracy government is responsible for the sinking of the ship. Not only did they not rescue those on this ship that had put out a distress call, they did not go with lifeboats but they went instead with ropes in order to tow the boat out of Greece's area of rescue responsibility pushing it to either Malta or Italy. The testimonies of the survivors refute the shameful lies of the Coast Guard officials who claimed that the refugees themselves did not want to be rescued and that they did not tow the boat.

The murderers of the New Democracy government are guilty of this crime.  Prime Minister Mitsotakis and his ministers, by adopting the racist policy of closed borders, the fence on the Evros and its extension, closed the only safe land passage for refugees and immigrants in Europe. These policies have pushed refugees into the hands of trafficking rings, in which many times the entanglements with police, border guards and Coast Guards, all this becomes a huge business for profiteering, while putting human lives at greater risk. It is the fault of the policy of the EU governments that went so far as to adopt the proposals of Meloni, the fascist prime minister of Italy, with which fences are raised everywhere, and ports are blocked from attempting to rescue refugees.
For all these murderers the lives of immigrants and refugees do not count and that is why they have the audacity to try to beautify their crimes and thus christen the mass deterrences and repatriations of women and children as supposed operations for the safety of all of us from the "invaders who alter European values".
We don't tolerate the killing of refugees just as we didn't tolerate and protested about the killings of the train privatizations in Tempe, about the killings of Roma by the Greek police, about the killings of people who waited for an ambulance that never came because instead the Greek government  choose to hire thousands of border guards and to not save the EKAB (National Centers Of Emergency and ambulatory services), and hire more staff for hospitals.
We demand that those guilty on the part of the Coast Guard and New Democracy’s architects of the border deterrence policy be punished. We demand that the rescued victims be immediately given papers so that the investigation of the crime can continue unhindered, and not to be deported to cover up the responsibilities of the state authorities.
We are fighting for open borders, for the fence of death in Evros to fall, for refugees to have asylum.
After the dynamic demonstrations on June 15th in Athens and throughout Greece, we continue the action to immediately oppose electorally the racist killers of the New Democracy party in the upcoming elections, while supporting the survivors and the relatives of the victims.
We are asking for immediate financial support to continue this campaign.
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JOIN THE CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE FOR THE GATE VICTIMS, OPEN BORDERS AND DOWN THE JEW FENCE
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KEERFA-MOVEMENT UNITED AGAINST RACISM AND FASCIST THREAT
17 Ιουνίου

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